Missed TF Opportunities in RE5

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Originally Posted by Magugag

As I've stated previously, it DOES destroy its host. It's not mutation, the virus eats the hosts body and rapidly reproduces itself by doing so. This is almost exactly what a virus does, even if Oroboros goes into strange science-fiction territory afterward. Excella DIED when Oroboros burst out of her, the resulting creature was an entirely different entity that ate her. Oroboros doesn't reproduce on its own. Like a virus, it needs host cells to corrupt and then destroy to make more of itself. The ONLY case in which Oroboros actually merges with and changes a host is when that host is accepted by the virus. The only one who even might have done that is Wesker. In most ways, it indeed fits the description of a virus.

It doesn't destroy it's host. The player destroys it's host when he or she shoots it. It does mutate the host, you can clearly see the evidence of that throughout the game. If it killed it's host then the host would simply fall over and die when it's head burst open, but it doesn't die. The host continues to move about as if directed by a brain. This displays the fact that the parasite and host have merged into a single being, the host brain my no longer exist, but the body still lives. Excella may have ceased to exist as Excella the human when she transformed, but she didn't die until the player fried her with the orbital laser.

As far as Wesker goes, he was genetically engineered to be the perfect host for the Uroboros parasite. With him, he's in control of it rather than it being in control of him, that is the only difference. It's that same engineering that allowed him to gain powers from the T-Virus rather than turn into a zombie or Tyrant.